The Gerontocracy Is the Villain of <em>Succession</em>

This story contains spoilers through the fifth episode of Succession Season 3.

Logan was ill. He was the victim of an ailment so common that most people would consider it trivial. But when it gets to Logan, it can plunge him into a state of anguish, deep depression, panic, even rage. Logan Roy had a UTI.

I’ll stop there with the rewrite of Gay Talese’s legendary 1966 , “Frank Sinatra Has a Cold,” though it is tempting to keep going in light of the latest episode of. When Logan, the patriarch of the family-run Waystar Royco media empire, contracts a urinary tract infection, it causes a so severe that he confuses his daughter for his wife and his son-in-law, Tom Wambsgans, for someone he likes. Just as Sinatra’s sniffles created ripples across the entertainment industry, Logan’s temporary illness throws everyone around him into disarray and threatens to upend the global-media landscape by spoiling a gargantuan deal.